Trump Directs Declassification of Alien-Life and UAP Files Amid AARO Review
President Donald Trump announced he is directing the Pentagon and other government agencies to identify and release files related to alien life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and related information due to substantial public interest. He said he doesn’t know whether aliens are real and did not express a position on the existence of extraterrestrials. He also suggested that declassification could involve former President Obama, who had stated in a podcast that while life elsewhere is statistically likely, there is no evidence of contact. Obama later clarified he hadn’t seen evidence of alien contact. Background notes include renewed public interest after leaked Navy UFO videos in 2017, leading to congressional hearings in 2022 and the creation of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to centralize reports. In 2023, AARO head Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick said there was no evidence of programs reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology. A 2024 unclassified report to Congress documented 485 unidentified-phenomena reports in the prior year, with 118 attributed to prosaic explanations such as balloons, birds, or unmanned aircraft, and no evidence of extraterrestrial life or technology. The piece also mentions that Lara Trump said Trump had a speech prepared on aliens, but the White House dismissed that claim.
Source: whittierdailynews.com
